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Aug 26

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News Wrap: Moderna sues Pfizer and BioNTech, nuclear plant in Ukraine reconnected to grid

By PBS NewsHour

In our news wrap Friday, Moderna announced it's suing Pfizer and BioNTech accusing them of copying its technology for their COVID vaccine, workers at a nuclear plant in Ukraine began reconnecting it to the power grid, Britain says the war…

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Jun 15

EPA says ‘forever chemicals’ pose a health risk even at very low levels

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

The Environmental Protection Agency is warning that two nonstick and stain-resistant compounds found in drinking water are more dangerous than previously thought — and pose health risks even at levels so low they cannot currently be detected.

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Dec 09

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Why PFAS are so impervious, and who is most at risk from the forever chemicals

By Miles O'Brien, Fedor Kossakovski

The new infrastructure law contains $10 billion for cleaning up drinking water that has been contaminated by a specific group of man-made chemicals. But problems with "forever chemicals" go back decades, and are located in many places around the U.S.

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Oct 18

EPA unveils strategy to regulate toxic ‘forever chemicals’

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

The Biden administration is launching a wide-ranging strategy to regulate toxic industrial compounds used in products including cookware, carpets and firefighting foams.

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Apr 17

White House moves to weaken EPA rule on toxic compounds

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press

Documents released Friday show the White House stepped in to limit the scope of a pending rule that would target imports of products tainted with a toxic industrial compound.

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Jan 22

‘Forever chemicals’ found in drinking water in dozens of cities

By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas

Researchers sampled drinking water at more than 40 locations in 31 states between May and December of 2019.

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Jan 10

The House just voted to regulate PFAS. Here’s what you need to know

By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill Friday that would set a deadline for the EPA to implement a national drinking water standard for chemicals known as PFAS.

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Dec 31

Sanders says he’ll enact national clean water standards for PFAS

By Holly Ramer, Associated Press

Sen. Bernie Sanders said as president, he will create national clean water standards for PFAS and other chemicals in an effort to guarantee clean drinking water “as a human right.”…

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Jun 03

FDA food testing finds contamination by PFAS and other ‘forever chemicals’

By Ellen Knickmeyer, John Flesher, Michael Casey, Associated Press

The levels in nearly half of the meat and fish tested were double or more the only currently existing federal advisory level for any kind of the widely used manmade compounds.

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Aug 12

What are PFASs, the toxic chemicals being found in drinking water?

By Mark Scialla

Six million Americans are exposed to hazardous levels of PFAS chemicals due pollution from military and industrial sites, according to a new study from Harvard University.

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